frou-frou vs scarlet

frou-frou

noun
  • A rustling sound, particularly the rustling of a large silk dress. 

verb
  • To move with the sound of rustling dresses. 

adj
  • Liable to create the sound of rustling cloth, similar to 19th-century dresses. 

  • Unimportant, silly, useless. 

  • Highly ornamented, overly elaborate; excessively girly. 

scarlet

noun
  • Cloth of a scarlet color. 

  • A brilliant red colour tinged with orange. 

verb
  • To dye or tinge (something) with scarlet. 

adj
  • Sinful or whorish. 

  • Blushing; embarrassed or mortified. 

  • Of a bright red colour. 

How often have the words frou-frou and scarlet occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )